Table II.

Parthenocarpic fruit development in Aucsia-silenced plants

Number and percentage of fruits set per number of emasculated flowers and average weight of fruits obtained from selfed and emasculated flowers belonging to six independent T0 Aucsia-silenced lines obtained in two different genetic backgrounds (L276 and INB777). The weight values reported are means ± sd (wild type, n = 18–20 selfed fruits sampled from four plants; Aucsia silenced, n = 7–13 selfed fruits sampled from one to two plants). Statistically significant differences between fruit weights of Aucsia-silenced and wild-type plants were calculated using Student's t test. Significant differences are as follows: * P < 0.05, ** P < 0.01, *** P < 0.001.

Line	Fruit Set		Average Weight
	No. of Fruit/No. of Emasculated Flowers	%	Emasculated	Selfed
			g
L276 1-1	4/9	44	13.49 ± 0.85***	38.98 ± 2.70***
L276 4-1a	7/7	100	35.47 ± 12.03**	38.43 ± 21.10*
L276 7-1	6/11	54	28.77 ± 4.25***	34.29 ± 2.04***
L276 8-2	10/15	67	40.14 ± 2.93***	48.38 ± 3.13*
L276 wild type	0/15	0		81.29 ± 4.39
INB777 7-1	20/25	80	18.27 ± 1.61***	48.72 ± 5.76**
INB777 13-3	14/20	70	18.47 ± 1.36***	61.04 ± 5.55*
INB777 wild type	0/20	0		77.40 ± 4.24

^aObligate parthenocarpic line.